Meanings
nounmad man (plural mad men)
plural mad men
- alternativeAlternative spelling of madman.
[…]his Method of History, proves that hot countries are most troubled with melancholy, and that there are therefore in Spain, Africa, and Asia Minor, great numbers of mad men, insomuch that they are compelled in all cities of note, to build peculiar hospitals for them.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Bad Air, a cause of Melancholy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, Gutenberg edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2004, partition 1, section 2, member 2, subsection 5
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